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Re: Close list



On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:18:55AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > <flame war>
> > Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
> > </flame war>
> 
> GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
> deleted, but rather just gets a header added saying `this message is
> considered suspicious'.  That allows individual recipients to do as they
> see fit.
> 
> That seems like it would be useful, and I fail to see how anyone could
> object to it...

It has been said in a related thread on a mailing list that shall not be
named :) that making a DNS lookup for hosts carrying the blacklists on each
delivery would slow it down. It has also been said that this isn't hard to
work around, though.

FWIW I like the X-RBL-Warning headers.

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